Typographical machine.



G. P. KINGSBURY.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IuLY 28. IsIs 1 ,265,344. Patented May 7, 1918.

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APPLICATION FILED IuIY 28.19Ie.

Patented May 7,1918.

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G. P. KINGSBURY.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

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' eral organization represented in Letters ent of the United States, N o. 436,532, to 0.--

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GEORGE P. KINGSBURY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 MERG-ENTHALER yIINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lPatented May 7, 191s.

Application led July 2,8, 1916. Serial No. 111,766.l

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. KINGsBU-RY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Imp yovements in Typographical Machines, of Wlilich the following is a speciiication, reference being -hadltherein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines ofthe genat- Mergent-haler, wherein circulating matrices are released from a magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a mold,y the mold filled withmolten metal to form a slug or linotype agai st the matrices which produce the type ,haracters thereon, and the matrices thereafter returned through distributing mechanism to the magazine from which they started. 'More particularly, it relates to the distributing mechanism for such machi es when equipped with a plurality of magazines, the general principle involved being the preliminary separation of the matrices according to letter and their subsequent separation according to form or font for delivery into the appropriate magazines.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown my invention merely in preferred form and by way of example and as applied to a linotype machine of the class stated, but obviously many changesand variations may be made therein and in its mode of application which will still be comprised within its spirit. Thus it may be similarly applied to other forms of typographical machines, such as typesetters and the like, which handle type or dies instead of matrices. Generally speaking, I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical section through the upper portion of alinotype machine having my invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fi l;

Fig. 3 is a section on Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. l showing the parts in different relative positions;

Fig. 5 is a detached perspective detail Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4, looking toward the rear; and

Fig. 7 illustrates the special form of matrices employed.

The matrices X are stored according to form or font in the four vertical. channeled magazines A, B, C and D (although a greater or less number may be employed) and are released therefrom in the required order and assembled in line in the customary way. After the slug has been cast, the composed line is carried upward by the second elevator E (see Fig. 6) and pushed endwise by the transfer device Es into the distributer box E1 wherein the matrices are detached from the line one at a time by the lifting finger E11 and delivered between the threads of the conveying screws E2 rotated in the usual way from the driving pulley E4. The screws E2 (three in number) carry the matrices along the longitudinally grooved distributer bar E3 which releases them at different points in its length, as usual. The parts so far described are or may be of the ordinary. construction.

It is pointed out that the matrices of all fontsare caused to traverse the distributer bar E3, which releases them at one point or another according to character and irrespective of form or font, so thatother mechanism must be provided to effect the further separation of the released matrices according to individual form or font and their final delivery'to the corresponding magazine. It is to this latter mechanism that my present invention is particularly directed, as will now be described.

As the matrices X are released from the distributer bar E3, they drop into a throat orv entrance E5, divided by partitions Ec into a series of channels.,` one for each of the releasing points of the bar. Interposed between the entrance E5 and the matrix magazines is an endless traveling conveyer or carrier F. adapted to be operated intermittingly and in synchronism with the distributer so as to receive the matrices as they are released therefrom-and transport and deliver them to the corresponding magazine. In the present embodiment, the conveyer comprises a series of parallel plates F1 adapted to move transversely in a closed vertical orbit and equidistantly spaced apart so that those in the upper horizontal Hight will register with those of the lower Hight as the carrier is advanced stepby step. The plates F1 are connected together at their opposite ends by links F2, cach of which is pivv otally connected by means of screw studs to the two adjoining plates. It will be noted that the links F2 have their pivot bearings somewhat enlarged, so as to provide in effect sprocket chains to coperate with sprocket wheels F7 whose teeth enter between the enlarged bearings of adjacent links.' There are four such sprocket wheels, two at the front and twoI at the rear, suitably journaled in the framework, and serving to guide and support the conveyer plates as they travel around in their closed orbit. The plates F1 extend entirely across the machine throughout the width of the magazines and the entrance E5, andare formed in their opposite side faces with grooves f', corresponding in number to that of the channels of the indiceive the matrices as4 they pass from the' channels of the entrance E5 and subse-- quently deliver them into the correspond-y,y

ing channels of the appropriate magazine. To maintain the plates F1 in a truly upright position during their travel, each of them is provided at both ends near its upper and lower edges with projecting lips or tonguesl F5 adapted to engage in straight horizontal grooves or guideways formed in the inner faces of a pair of plates F6 fixed to the opposite sidesof the machine frame (see. particularly Figs. 5V and 6). According to the foregoing construction, as the plates are advanced intermittingly through the machine, they present two opposed horizontal Hights of open upright channeled pockets traveling in opposite directions, the upper pockets receiving the matrices as they pass from the channel entrance E, and the lower ones carrying the previously distributed matrices across or delivering them into the underly-v ing magazines, each pocket of the series being brought in turn beneath the channel entrance and subsequently presented above each of the four magazines in succession.

If, however, the matrices discharged into a given pocket were left therein until it arrived at the magazines, the contained matrices would necessarily become inverted, i. e., with their lower ends uppermost, and consequently they would be discharged into the magazines in an improper position. To avoid this, the pockets constituted by the adjoining plates are left open at both the top and bottom, so that during the travel of the conveyer the matrices discharged into the pockets of the upper Hight may pass therefrom into those of the lower Hight, and thus maintain the matrices at all times in an upright or uninverted position. This passage of the matrices through the conveyer is controlled by a fixed transverse plate F8 supported in the framework between the oppositely traveling Hights of pockets, and in position to close the bottom of each pocket as it is brought into operative relation to the channell entrance E5. Similarly, there is rovided a second fixed plate F 9 arranged beibw the lower Hight of pockets in position to close that one which is located at the time one Vstep in advance of'the upper pocket in receiving position. As a result of the above construction, when the matrices are discharged from the entrance E5 into a pocket of the upper Hight in receiving position, they are temporarily retained therein by the plate F8, (see F 1), and then when the carrier advances one step forward, the matrices are carried forwardly from across the plate and dropped into the registering pocket of the lower Hight, as shown in Fig. 4, wherein they are temporarily retained by the plate F 9. The next advance of the carrier presents the matrices to the group of magazines, into one or another of which they are discharged according to form or font.

The delivery of the matrices into the magazines is controlled by selecting means which allow them to drop from the conveyer pockets when presented above the corresponding magazine, but which otherwise maintain the matrices within the pockets so that they may be carried farther for presentation to the appropriate magazine. Such means, in the present instance, consist of series of fontselectors a, b and c attached respectively to the magazines A, B and C at their receiving ends, each series having one selector for each channel of the Icorresponding magazine. The selectors of each magazine are in the form of thin metal strips or members projecting partly across its entrance mouth and lying between the matrix channels and formed at their free ends with laterally projecting Vlips (see Fig. 3) to coperate with the descending matrices. The selectors of the several magazines differ relatively as to length so as to vary the location of their laterally projecting lips', which are designed to coperate with diiierently located notches in the matrices of the respective fonts.

The matrices employed are illustrated in Fig, 7, there being four fonts in all, one for each of the magazines and numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The matrices of fonts 1, 2 and 3 are formed at their lower ends with longitudinally extending notches w1, m2 and w3, these notchesbeing located in different relative positions in the respective fonts, as shown. The matrices of font 4 are without such notches.

The font distribution will now be clear:

As the matrices are carried oli'l the station-A ary plate F9 by the traveling conveyer, they are all first located above the magazine A, and if any of such matrices are of font 1 belonging Ithereto, their notches :v1 register with the laterally projecting lips of the selectors a, which thus release the' matricesv they are subjected to the detecting action of the second series of selectors b. Such of the matrices belonging topthis magazine, which contains font` 2, will have their notches m2 registering with the projecting "lips of the selectors Z; and they will-therefore be released from the conveyer and allowed to pass into the magazine. At the ne j advance of the conveyer, the matrices remaining in the pocket are located above the third magazine C, and those belonging thereto (font 3) are released from the pocket by the selectors c, whose projecting lips register with the notches m3 of the matrices. The matrices' (those of font 4) still remaining in the pocket and undistributed into the threeprevious magazines are then presented above the last magazine D, into. which'they are instantly dropped, there being no'f nt selectors attached to this magazine. It `vill be understood, of course, that during the travel of the conveyer, each Aof its pockets will contain one or more matrices which have fallen from the distributer bar E3, and that all of the pockets of the series are presented successively to each of the magazines in turn, the associated font .selectors coperating with the matrices as they are presented momentarily thereto and serving either to permit or prevent their release from the conveyer'according to form or font;

The magazines are attached at their upper ends to transverse supporting bars A1,'B1, C1

and D1, which are connected by tongue-and# groove connections to fixed frame members' so asto be slid endwise from the machine `to eiect the independent removal of` the magazines, rollers being journaled to said bars and traveling upon lixed tracks to facilitate their sliding movements,` the supporting members A1, B1 and C1 having wide upper faces flush with the upper ends of the magazines serving to maintain the matrices within the pockets of the traveling conveyer as they are-carried across the lspaces between the adjoining magazines.

As before explained, the channels of the conveyer pocket-s are constituted by the grooves f formed in the opposing faces of t erally as they pass therefrom to allow their body portions to clear the projecting lips of the font selectors, as clearly vrepresented in Fig. 2. This arrangement avoids the necessity of cutting the font separating notches m2 of thematrices entirely through their body portions. The use of the grooves f which allow the matrices to be guided entirely by their projecting ears, is also advantageous in that the matrices are always kept under positive control irrespective of their relative thicknesses. The partitions E6 of the entrance E5 are also vformed with laterally projecting guiding pieces E'I to engage the matrix-ears and insure their proper entrance into the grooves fof lthe conveyer plates F1 (see Fig. 6).

Any suitable mechanism may be used for imparting to the conveyer F the step by step motion previouslydescribed. In the present instance, there is' employed for this purpose a pair of arms F10 fixed to the op osite ends of av transverse rock shaft 1?, and provided at their lower ends with gravitating orspring-pressed pawls F11 adapted to engage upstanding noses or projections F4 formed on short connecting plates F3 between -each adjoining pair ofthe sprocket links F2 before described, see particularly Figs. 5 and 6. Attached to one end of the rock shaft F12 is a shorter depending arm F15 arranged to be engaged by a roller F11 j ournaled on the end of the lower distributer screw E2. A spring F16 attached to the rock shaft through the mediuml of a crank arm F17, and pulling from a fixed part of the machine, serves to hold the arm F15 in engagement with the roller F1*1 at all times. As a result of this construction, thearms F10 are caused to swing to Vand fro at each rota-A tion. of the distributer screws, the pawls F11 when the arms are in their innermost position being arranged to engage the projections F 1 of the conveyer chains and by such engagement acting, when the arms are swung outwardly, to advance the carrier one step forwardly to an extent equal to the distance between two adjoining pockets. In other words, the, conveyer is advanced intermit conveyer will, of course, remain in a position of rest during the period takenv up by the return of the operating arms F10 and until they are again moved outward by the continued rotation of the distribute-r screw.

This temporary interruption of the move-' of the details may be widely .varied in form or arrangement without materially changing their mode of action or the results secured by the general organization. Such modifications or alterations will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art without departure from its scope.

Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. Typographical distributing mechanism including a matrix conveyer comprising an endless series `of pockets traveling in -op'- posed immediately adjacent Hights, the pockets of the two Hights being arranged to communicate in the operation of the conveyer so as to permit the matrices to pass through the pockets of one Hight into those of the other to avoid their'inversion.

2. Typographical distributing mechanism including a matrix conveyer comprising an endless series of pockets traveling in opposed overlying Hights, the said conveyer having its pockets open at both the top and bottom and relatively arranged so that those of the upper Hight will register with those of the lower Hight in the course of travel of the conveyer, for the purpose described.

3. Typographical distributing mechanism including a matrix conveyer comprising an endless series of pockets traveling inv opposed overlying Hights, the said conveyer having its pockets open at both the top and bottom and relatively arran ed so that those of the upper Hight will register with those of the lower Hight in the course of travel of ,the conveyer to permit the passage of the matrices through the former into the latter, and means for controlling such passage of the matrices.

4. Typographical distributing mechanism including a matrixconveyer comprising an lendless series of pockets traveling 1n opposed immediately adjacent overlying flights, the pockets of the two Hights being arranged to communicate in the operation of the conveyer so as to permit the matrices to pass through the pockets of the upper Hight into those of the lower to avoid their inversion, and means for releasing -the matrices from the lower Hight of pockets at different points according to form.

5. Typographical distributing mechanism including a matrix conveyer comprising an endless series of pockets traveling in opposed overlying Hights, the said conveyer having its pockets open at both the top and bottom and relatively arranged so that those of the upper Hight will register with those of the lower Hight in the course of travel of the conveyer to permit the matrices to pass through the former into the latter, and means for releasing the matrices from the lower Hight of pockets at different points according to form.

6. In atypographical machine, the'combination of a pluralit of magazines containing matrices of di erent forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of forni, an intermediate traveling conveyer comprising a series of pockets to receive the matrices so separated and present them to the several magazines successively, and. matrix selecting means associated with each of the magazines to control the delivery thereinto of the matrices of corresponding form.

7. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of channeled magazines containing matrices of different formsor fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an intermediate traveling conveyer comprising a series of channeled pockets to receive the matrices so separated and present .them to the several magazines successively, and a series of matrix selectors associated with each of the magazines and corresponding in number to`tl1at of the channels thereof to control the delivery thereinto of the appropriate matrices.

` 8. In a typographical machine, comprising matrices differing in form, the combination of a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an underlying conveyer comprising a. series of pockets to receive the matrices so separated, and a plurality of selectors varying in form and arranged at different points in the travel of the conveyer, the said selectors adapted to coperate with the matrices in the conveyer and control their release therefrom at one point or another according to form.

9. In a typographical machine comprising matrices each formed with a notch at its lower end, the said notches varying in location in the respective matrices, the combination of `a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, a conveyer comprising a series of pockets to receive the matrices so separated, and a plurality-of matrix selectors arranged at different points in the travel of the conveyer, the said selectors being formed respectively with projecting lips diierently located to correspond with the location of rices according to character irrespective ofV form, a conveyer comprising an endless series of channeled pockets traveling in opposed overlying flights and constructed and arranged so that those of the upper Hight will receive the separated matrices and subsequently discharge theminto, those of the lower flight, and a series of individual selectors for each of the magazines to coperate with the matrices in( the lower Hight of pockets and control their delivery into the appropriate magazine.

11. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of channeled magazines containing matrces of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to characterirrespective of form, an intermediate conveyer com-V prising an endless series of channeled pockets' traveling in oposed overlying Hights, the saidpockets being open at both the top and bottom and arranged so that the matrices will pass into those of the upper Hight and subsequently be discharged into those of the lower Hight, and a series of selectors associated with each of the maga zines and arranged to retain the matrices in the lower Hight of pockets until they haveV reached their appropriate magazine.

12. A` channeled magazine provided with a series of matrix selectors, one for each channel, the said selectors being in the 'form of thin metal strips projecting partly across the entrance mouth of the magazine and lying between the matrix channels andv formed with laterally projecting lips to cooperate with the matrices as they enter the magazine.

13. A channeled magazine provided at its receiving end with a series of likematrix selectors, one for each channel.

14. In a typographical machine the combination of a plurality of channeled magazines containing matrices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, and an intermediate traveling conveyer to receive the matrices so separated and deliver'them to one or another of the magazines according to form, the said conveyer comprising a connected series of grooved plates providing between them channeled pockets for the matrices.

15. In a typographical machine, the com-v bination of a plurality of channeled magazines containin matrices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, and an intermediate traveling conveyer to receive the matricessosep'arated and deliver them to one;or another of the magazines according to form, the said'conveyer comprising a connectedv series of plates each formed in its opposite sidepfaces with grooves, which thus provide a plurality of matrix channels between each two adjoining plates of ltheseries.` i

16, In a typographical machine,the combination of a plurality of channeled magazines containing matrices of diHerent forms or fonts, a distributer to lsepa-rate 'the matrices according to character irrespective of form, and an intermediate traveling conveyer to receive the matrices so separated and deliver them toY one or another of the magazines according toform, the said conveyer comprising an endless series -of grooved plates moving in opposed overlying flights and equidistantly spaced apart so that the grooves of the upper Hight will register with those of the lower Hight in the course of travel of the conveyer, lfor the purpose described.

17. In a typographical machine, the coinbination of a pluralit' of channeled magazines containing matrices of differentforms or` fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an intermediate traveling conveyer to receive the matrices so separated and deliver them to one or another of the'V magazines according to form and compris-k v ing a connected series of transverse plates providing-matrix carrying pockets between them, and means for maintaining. the plates or fonts, a distributer to separate the matv rices according to'character irrespective of form, an intermediate traveling conveyerto receive the matrices sov separated yand deliver them to one or another of the magazines according to form and comprising 'an endless series 'of transverse plates moving in opposed overlying Hights and providing ma# trix carrying pockets between them, and

means for maintaining the plates yin paral#v` lelism as they move in their opposedHights.

19. Typographical distributingmechanism includingna-matrix conveyer comprising an endless series of matrix-holdin pockets traveling in'opposed Hights, the sai pockets bein made up of a train of transversely mova le grooved plates each formed at its opposite ends with projecting lips or tongues, and a relatively HXed frame memw ber formed with grooves wherein saidV tongues engage during the travel of the conveyer, whereby its grooved plates are maintained in proper parallelism.v

20. Typographical 'distributing mechanism including a traveling matrix conveyerv 21. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines containing matrices of ditlerent forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an intermediateconveyer comprising a series of channeled pockets to receive the separated matrices and deliver them to one or another of the magazines according to form, and means for advancing the conveyer step by step to locate each of its matrix-holding pockets in operative relation to the several magazines in succession.

22. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines containing matrices of differentl forms or fonts,

a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an intermediate conveyer comprising an endless series of channeled pockets traveling in opposed overlying fiights, the pockets of the upper iiight being arranged to receive -the' matrices when separated by the distributer, and those of the lower flight arranged to discharge the matrices into the magazines, and means for advancing the conveyer step by step to present different pocketsA to the distributer and to each ofthe magazines, respectively.

23. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines containing matr'ices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, an intermediate conveyer comprislng an endless series of channeled pockets traveling in opposed overlying flights, the pockets of the upper flight being arranged to receive the matrices when separated by the distributer, and those of the lower iight arranged to. discharge the matrices into the magazines, and means for advancin the conveyer step by step to present di erent pockets to the distributer 4and to each of the magazines respectively, the said means being operated in synchronism with the distributer so as to bring a diierent pocket into receiving relation thereto at each release of matrices therefrom.

24. In a typographical machine, the combination of a'plurality of channeled magazines containing matrices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate thematrices according to character irrespective of form, and an intermediate traveling conveyer to receive the matrices so separated and deliver them to one or another of the magazines according to form, the said conveyer comprising a series of channeled pockets in which the matrices are carried.

25. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines containing matrices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, a traveling conveyer to receive the matrices so separated and carry them across the entrance mouths of the magazines, and relatively iixed means to support the matrices in the conveyer until they reach their appropriate magazine.

26. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines containing matrices of different forms or fonts, a distributer to separate the matrices according to character irrespective of form, means for presenting the matrices so separated to the magazines successively, and fixed selectors located at or across the receiving ends of the magazines to control the delivery thereinto of matrices of corresponding form.

In testimony whereof, I have aiixed'my signature.

GEORGE r. KINGSBURY. 

